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Sight Gags and Silly Parodies
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Airplane! esque movies. Mainly known from the trio of Zucker Abrahams Zucker, but Pat Proft added his two bits along the way and on his own. Other directors have tried to make something like that group did, some do a good job, others fail.


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Movie: Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult ( 1994 )
Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) comes out of retirement to help Police Squad infiltrate a gang of terrorists planning to detonate a bomb at the Academy Awards.
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Movie: The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear ( 1991 )
Lieutenant Frank Drebin discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new beau is involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist who advocates solar energy.
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Movie: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! ( 1988 )
Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
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Movie: Airplane! ( 1980 )
A man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick.
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Movie: Airplane II: The Sequel ( 1982 )
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track - again?
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Movie: Repossessed ( 1990 )
Parody of The Exorcist (1973), with Linda Blair once again possessed by Satan, and Leslie Nielsen as the exorcist.
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Movie: Top Secret! ( 1984 )
Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.
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Movie: Wrongfully Accused ( 1998 )
Ryan Harrison is framed for murder and must prove himself innocent by finding a mysterious one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged man after escaping from a bus accident on the way to jail.
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Movie: Leslie Nielsen's Stupid Little Golf Video ( 1997 )
Notoriously maladroit golf enthusiast Nielsen returns to the green, dispensing more how-to tips for the beginning bad golfer. Includes advice on how to reduce your score by skipping the last hole and how to improve your cart-driving skills.
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Movie: Leslie Nielsen's Bad Golf Made Easier ( 1993 )
Leslie Nielsen teaches frustrated rookie golfer Billy how to bend the rules of golf to his advantage.
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Movie: Spaceballs ( 1987 )
A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.
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TV Show: Spaceballs: The Animated Series ( 2008 )
Spaceballs: The Animated Series, also known as Spaceballs: The Series, is an animated television series that premiered in 2008 on G4 and Canada's Super Channel, and is loosely based on the parody science fiction film Spaceballs.Similarly to how the original film parodied the original Star Wars films and the Star Trek universe, each episode of the series parodies a different film or other aspect ofpopular culture, such as the Star Wars prequel trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, or the Grand Theft Auto video games.
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Movie: Superfast! ( 2015 )
A spoof on The Fast and the Furious (2001) and the following F&F movies. An undercover cop joins a gang of criminal street racers to get close to the LA crime kingpin.
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Movie: Brain Donors ( 1992 )
Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.
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Movie: Fatal Instinct ( 1993 )
A spoof of the late '80s and early '90s suspense thrillers and murder mysteries, including Basic Instinct, Sleeping With The Enemy, and Cape Fear. A cop/attorney (yes he's both) is seduced by a woman while his wife is having an affair with a mechanic. Lots of other sublots and visual gags in the style of Naked Gun. Check the rating.
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Movie: Loaded Weapon 1 ( 1993 )
A spoof on Lethal Weapon (1987), other movies, TV commercials etc. 2 unlike LA cops investigate a cocaine in girl scout cookies case.
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TV Show: Police Squad! ( 1982 )
Police Squad! was a parody of the Quinn Martin Productions' police dramas of the 1960s and 1970s, hence the use of "In Color" by the narrator. The show's main staple of entertainment came from sight gags (such as a tow truck being a truck in the shape of a big toe) and misunderstandings in dialogue, mostly from people taking things extremely literally. Several great routines came from these misunderstandings that left characters in the scene very confused, but left the audience with loads of humor.
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Movie: Off the Mark ( 1987 )
A teenaged boy's family once hosted a Russian exchange student in their home for a year. Several years later, as adults, the two find themselves competing against each other in a Triathlon competition.
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Movie: 9 1/2 Ninjas! ( 1991 )
Joe Vogue, a ninja, butts heads with a real estate tycoon who has hired assassins to eliminate him. In addition to that he has to also protect and train a woman in the arts of ninjutsu.
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Movie: Going Under ( 1991 )
International disaster looms as the USS Sub Standard has to race to get a nuclear weapon ahead of the Russian forces.
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Movie: High School High ( 1996 )
Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.
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Movie: Hot Shots! ( 1991 )
A parody of Top Gun (1986) in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.
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Movie: Hot Shots! Part Deux ( 1993 )
"Rambo" parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams.
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Movie: When Nature Calls ( 1985 )
When construction worker Greg becomes fed-up with his foreman and the "city life", he takes his wife and kids on a wilderness adventure.
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Movie: Scary Movie ( 2000 )
A year after disposing of the body of a man they accidentally killed, a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer.
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Movie: Scary Movie 2 ( 2001 )
Four teens are tricked by Professor Oldman (Tim Curry) into visiting a haunted house for a school project.
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Movie: Scary Movie 3 ( 2003 )
Cindy must investigate mysterious crop circles and video tapes, and help the President in preventing an alien invasion.
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Movie: Scary Movie 4 ( 2006 )
Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.
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Movie: Scary Movie 5 ( 2013 )
A couple begin to experience some unusual activity after bringing their lost nieces and nephew home. With the help of home-surveillance cameras, they learn they're being stalked by a nefarious demon.
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TV Show: Angie Tribeca ( 2016 )
Lone-wolf detective Angie Tribeca and a squad of committed LAPD detectives investigate the most serious cases, from the murder of a ventriloquist to a rash of baker suicides.
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Movie: The Silence of the Hams ( 1994 )
A rookie FBI agent, Jo Dee Foster (Billy Zane), has been assigned to work on the case of the Psycho Killer, a killer who has killed over 120 people. But to find out more about the Psycho Killer, Jo is forced to meet Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza (Dom DeLuise), a famous doctor turned cannibal who ate pizzas with human body parts. Meanwhile, Jo's girlfriend, Jane Wine (Charlene Tilton), has just stolen $400,000 in cash from her money-hungry boss, Mr. Laurel (Rip Taylor), so she and Jo can be happy, but gets lost in a really horrible storm, caused mostly by a special effects crew behind her car, and stops at the Cemetery Motel, where the owner, Antonio Motel (Ezio Greggio), is dominated by his insane mother ('Shelly Winters').
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Movie: Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood ( 1996 )
A parody of several U.S. films about being in the 'Hood', for instance "Boyz n the Hood", "South Central", "Menace II Society", "Higher Learning" and "Juice".
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Movie: CB4 ( 1993 )
A guy makes a documentary of the rap band CB4 by following them. CB4 got popular by stealing Gusto's name, background and image. He wants them dead.
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Movie: Superhero Movie ( 2008 )
Orphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero.
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Movie: What's Up, Tiger Lily? ( 1966 )
In Woody Allen's directorial debut, he took the Japanese action film Key of Keys (1965) and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.
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Movie: Hardware Wars ( 1978 )
This is a short parody of the movie Star Wars.
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TV Show: Family Guy ( 1999 )
Family Guy follows Peter Griffin the endearingly ignorant dad, and his hilariously offbeat family of middle-class New Englanders in Quahog, RI. Lois is Peter's wife, a stay-at-home mom with no patience for her family's antics. Then there are their kids: 18-year-old Meg is an outcast at school and the Griffin family punching bag; 13-year-old Chris is a socially awkward teen who doesn't have a clue about the opposite sex; and one-year-old Stewie is a diabolically clever baby whose burgeoning sexuality is very much a work in progress. Rounding out the Griffin household is Brian the family dog and a ladies' man who is one step away from AA.
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Movie: Mafia! ( 1998 )
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father
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TV Show: Sledge Hammer! ( 1986 )
Meet Inspector Sledge Hammer, a new kind of hero who makes Rambo look like Pee Wee Herman. Sledge is the trigger-happy lawman whose hatred of criminal scum and yogurt eatin' creeps was matched only by his love of excessive force and a .44 Magnum. Over the next two seasons, this hilariously deranged lampoon of Dirty Harry and plenty of other targets became one of the most notorious series in television history and launched a rabid cult of fans that grows to this day.
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TV Show: Danger Theatre ( 1993 )
In this parody in the vein of Police Squad!, each 30-minute episode was hosted by Robert Vaughn and features two 15-minute mini-shows. They are:The Searcher: A nameless leather-clad motorcyclist who helps anyone who can reach him... and is a doofus of epic proportions.Tropical Punch: Adam West plays Captain Mike Morgan, the bumbling head of an elite Hawaiian police squad.Two of the 30-minute segments featured complete Searcher stories. In the last of seven episodes, Tropical Punch was swapped out for a new team of college-age crimefighters, two coffee-shop denizens who work as PIs and spend their time mostly drinking coffee and wearing cool clothing.
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TV Show: The Paul Hogan Show ( 1973 )
Paul Hogan has only ever played one character: himself. It is this Paul Hogan character that has taken him from the scaffolds of the Harbour Bridge to the very top of Hollywood. Paul's television career began in 1971 when he appeared on New Faces as a blindfolded, tap dancing knife thrower. Fifteen years later his movie "Crocodile Dundee" was breaking box office records around the world. From runner-up in an amateur talent quest to writing, producing and starring in the most successful Australian film ever made! Paul Hogan was destined for stardom from the moment he greeted his first audience with a casual "G'day".
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Movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 )
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
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TV Show: Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 1969 )
And now for something completely different: Monty Python's Flying Circus was simply the most influential comedy program television has ever seen. Five Englishmen, all working under the constraints of conventional TV shows such as The Frost Report (for which the five Englishmen wrote), gathered together with an expatriate American in the spring of 1969 to break the rules. The result, first airing on BBC-1 on October 5, 1969, has influenced countless future men and women in the media and comedy since.
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Movie: Life of Brian ( 1979 )
Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
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Movie: Spy Hard ( 1996 )
Dick Steele, Agent WD-40 is assigned by his Director, to stop the evil General Rancor from destroying the world. WD-40 believed Rancor was dead and he teams up with the hot K.G.B. Agent Veronique Ukrinsky to find Rancor and save the world.
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Movie: Undercover Brother ( 2002 )
A white faceless corporate despot known only as "The Man", has the power to unleash a terrifying top-secret weapon: an irresistibly packaged psycho-hallucinogenic drug that will reduce the entire population to mindless zombies. but black folks have soul. But with enough funky sense of style, a smooth way with the ladies and an absolute hunger for justice, with his Bruce Lee moves, Cadillac attitude and an arsenal of outrageous disguises and gadgets, Undercover Brother is recruited by the group of Good Guys, know as the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. an all-black justice league to foil the Man's plan to derail a Colin Powell-like presidential candidate, and Undercover Brother's undercover exploits keep the slim plot moving. But while he and his sassy cat-fighting partner known as Sistah Girl tries to find out what's going on, the leader's ruthless right arm, Mr. Feather, discovers the conspiracy's sexy secret weapon, Penelope Snow.
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Movie: An American Carol ( 2008 )
An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.
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Movie: BASEketball ( 1998 )
Two childhood friends are pro athletes of a national sport called BASEketball, a hybrid of baseball and basketball, and must deal with a greedy businessman scheming against their team.
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Movie: Johnny Dangerously ( 1984 )
Set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
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Movie: Meet the Spartans ( 2008 )
A spoof of 300 (2006) and many other movies, TV series/shows/commercials, video games and celebrities. King Leonidas of Sparta and his army of 12 go to war against Xerxes of Persia to fight to the death for Sparta's freedom.
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Movie: Not Another Teen Movie ( 2001 )
A sendup of all the teen movies that have accumulated in the past two decades.
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Movie: Kung Pow: Enter the Fist ( 2002 )
A rough-around-the-edges martial arts master seeks revenge for his parents' death.
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Movie: Robin Hood: Men in Tights ( 1993 )
A spoof of Robin Hood in general, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) in particular.
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Movie: Student Bodies ( 1981 )
A murderer known as "The Breather" kills off high schoolers.
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Movie: Blazing Saddles ( 1974 )
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
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Movie: High Anxiety ( 1977 )
Mel Brooks' parody of Alfred Hitchcock films.
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Movie: Dracula: Dead and Loving It ( 1995 )
Mel Brooks' parody of the classic vampire story and its famous film adaptations.
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Movie: Transylvania Twist ( 1990 )
The nephew of a librarian must go collect a 200 year old book, "The Book of Ulthar." that should have never been checked out by the Evil Count Orlock cause one of the spells in it could bring about the end of the world. During his trip to the castle, he meets Marissa, a gorgeous rock star and heir to the castle's fortune. There they must confront the only other heir to the fortune and the book, Uncle Byron; and Uncle Byron and his 3 adopted nieces all have very, very, very broad smiles.
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TV Show: Spacecats ( 1991 )
A battle of good versus evil as seen through the Spacecats, highly evolved felines from a distant planet Trygliceride-7, who are dispatched to Earth to battle super villains who are plaguing the planet.
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Movie: This Is Spinal Tap ( 1984 )
Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
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Movie: Young Frankenstein ( 1974 )
An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
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TV Show: Get Smart ( 1965 )
In 1965 the cold war was made a little warmer and a lot funnier due in part to the efforts of an inept, underpaid, overzealous spy: Maxwell Smart, Agent 86. The hit comedy series Get Smart is the creation of comic geniuses Buck Henry and Mel Brooks.
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TV Show: Fillmore! ( 2002 )
Cornelius Fillmore a juvenile delinquent with a record was caught raiding the school's new chalk shipment. He was arrested and given a choice by the safety patrol officer who caught him, either help him solve another case or spend the rest of middle school in detention. Fillmore decided to help out and he eventually decided to join up with the safety patrol. The show is based around him and his partner Ingrid Third at X Middle School.
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Movie: Killer Tomatoes Eat France! ( 1992 )
After being busted out of jail by his tomatoes, Professor Mortimer Gangrene begins a new plot to take over the world by inserting his hapless lackey Igor into the throne of the King of France.
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Movie: Killer Tomatoes Strike Back! ( 1991 )
Professor Gangreen attempts to brainwash the world; a police assistant and a tomatologist team up to stop him.
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Movie: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! ( 1978 )
A group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated killer tomatoes.
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Movie: Return of the Killer Tomatoes! ( 1988 )
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.
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Movie: The Creature Wasn't Nice ( 1981 )
When the spaceship Vertigo stops to explore a previously unknown planet, the crew finds an unrecognized dollop of protoplasm and takes it aboard ship to return it to earth for analysis. On board, lifeform expands into an oozing person-eating monster which communicates primarily by means of a Vegas lounge act. The crew is gobbled up one after another until the two surviving crewmembers come up with a plan.
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Movie: Men in White ( 1998 )
Two garbagemen (Tom Wilson, Karim Prince) are picked up by aliens to be experimented on and they become the lead in stopping the ultimate alien invasion which is secretly being planned by a weak Dr. Strangelove clone (Wigald Boning as Strangemeister).
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Movie: The Last Remake of Beau Geste ( 1978 )
An aging Sir Hector Geste (Trevor Howard) takes a young greedy wife who's after his famed Blue Water sapphire, but his sons hide the gem and join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa.
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Movie: The Naked Truth ( 2010 )
Actor Leslie Nielsen's hysterical pseudo-autobiography lampoons the entertainment business, agents, movie stars, divorce lawyers and of course himself. Based on the book and Grammy nominated comedy record "The Naked Truth" by Leslie Nielsen and David Fisher.
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Movie: Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth ( 2001 )
A reporter investigates a series of murders, dubbed the Spring Break Massacre, which leads to further mayhem.
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Movie: Pandemonium ( 1982 )
A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.
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Movie: A Man Called Sarge ( 1990 )
In the midst of WWII, a group of half-witted soldiers led by a slightly smarter sergeant, battle the Germans and especially Von Kraut in the desert.
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TV Show: Working ( 1997 )
Matt is an idealistic and young college graduate, whose new job at multinational corporation Upton/Webber makes him realize that his ideals differ from reality. Despite the style-over-substance shortcuts favored by the company, he is determined to prove that hard work pays off.
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TV Show: ALF Tales ( 1988 )
With the big success of the TV show "ALF", the producers decided in to create an animated ALF series, called ALF Tales.
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Movie: I'm Gonna Git You Sucka ( 1989 )
Jack Spade returns home from the army in his old ghetto neighborhood when his brother, Junebug dies from O.G. - over gold. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crime lord. His army is led by John Slade, his childhood idol who used to fight bad guys in the '70s.
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Movie: Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death ( 1989 )
The government hires a feminist at the local university to track down the Piranha Women living in the uncharted Avocado Jungle (westernmost outpost is San Bernardino) to convince them to move to a reservation condo in Malibu. She hires a guide at the edge of the jungle, a male chauvinist pig, and they have many arguments about men and women as they work their way in, and eventually confront the Piranha Women.
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Movie: Backfire! ( 1995 )
Just as Jeremy Jackson attempts to become the first male firewoman in New York, fires begin mysteriously erupting from toilets all over the City and Fire Marshal Marc Marshall is called in to investigate. From the start, Jeremy is heckled and sexually harassed by his tough as nails female cohorts including his instructor, the hard-boiled Lt. Shithouse. Jessica Luvintryst, Jeremy's old flame and the Mayor's very personal assistant, rekindles the fire in his eyes and between his thighs. Jeremy discovers trace jet fuel at the fire sites and soon becomes hot on the trail of The Most Evil Man and his diabolical scheme. In the tradition of Naked Gun, Backfire spoofs Backdraft.
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Movie: Based on an Untrue Story ( 1993 )
Perfume creator Satin Chow is about to reveal her new designer scent 'Puppy' when she is cruelly struck down by a rare condition called anosmia which robs her of her sense of smell, and could even kill her. With time fast running out, she begins a frantic search for the only people who can provide the tissue-donations she desperately needs: her long-lost sisters Couderoy and Velour.